Causal attributions in posttraumatic stress disorder: Implications for clinical research and practice

Psychotherapy

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 201-215

  Massad, Phillip M ^a   Hulsey, Timothy L ^a,b  

^a IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attribution retraining; Attribution theory; Causal induction; Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ARMY; CHILD ABUSE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COGNITION; CRIME; DISASTER; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; METHODOLOGY; MODEL; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOTRAUMA; RAPE; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT; SURVIVAL; SYMPTOM; TERMINAL DISEASE; VETERAN; VICTIM;

EID: 33746384054     PISSN: 00333204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-3204.43.2.201     Document Type: Review

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